Word: blowing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will not more American lives be lost in war than by conditions as at present, or as they would be under such terms as could be obtained in return for a resumption of relations? A declaration of war will secure us no new rights, would merely be a death-blow to our prosperity and happiness, and another capitulation to this frightful international chaos which pits civilization against civilization in the name of civilization. In other words, our joining the war is one more loss to the cause of peace, one more concession to legalized murder for the sake...
...this imminent crisis which threatens so strongly our present status of peace, it is natural that men who love their country should ask what they can do. "Old men for council," but young men are impatient in council. They want swift action, a blow while the iron is in its whitest heat...
Neither the hope for peace nor the desire for war should blind us. A new crisis means an increased danger. The slightest blow on hammered rock will cause that rock to break, and how near America is to breaking only those at the head of it may know...
Today the sappers burrow from the front trench under No Man's Land and blow up the enemy trench with high explosives...
...death of Professor Muensterberg is a great blow to the Faculty and undergraduates of this University in which for twenty five years he has been so distinguished a figure. By his death the intellectual world has lost a man whose efforts have done much to change psychology from a dry study of ethics to a living science, applicable to every-day life. As a man of broad views and international sympathies, as a German citizen who enjoyed the hospitality of America, his greatest wish has always been to promote good feeling between the two nations. Because in recent years...